... the mott ex- acting. Can anything excuse snch a complete misnomer as a white blackberry? For want of a better name, however, this must le employed to describe tbe new blackberry which has recently been ratsod in California. The variety is known as the iceberg: ...

... County Council waut an Act to make mushrooms, blackberries, and all plant roots the proporty of the occupier of the land on which they grow, so that it will be felony to pluck them. Why- stop at blackberries? Outsiders still call the air free. Cannot the ...

... hand. Well? Please, sir. it's good to mix among whisky when there's folk comin' to see ye. Why do tlapy call these blackberries? asked the small boy of the greengrocer. Because they ore black. was the prompt reply. Then why do they call those ...

... officialdom the pulse of life beats responsive to the general movement. Men of light and leading' are ac plentiful as blackberries. ...

... isn't tlie name for it. Mr. Youngwoman wants to know Which is th*- best way to mark table linen? Leave the baby and a blackberry pie alone at the table for tl__r_ _ minutes. Teacher: What is tliat letter? Small Boy: I don't know. Teacher: What ...

... good smart girl to help her, and she shrugged her plump shoulders, and said girls, both good and smart, were scarce as blackberries in December. I am afraid she will not think I am that rare combination, Kildee said. We'll risk it, the Mayor answered; ...

... if in a fresh and dry state. Otherwise game should be enclosed in a bos. Tin boxes should always be up. d for damsons, blackberries, & ...

... CHIPS. ! . *t*— — The death is announced of Mr Gilmore, the telebrated American bandmaster. Blackberries are fine and ripe, and so ahond.nt this year that they ought to be very che.*i. Sir Joseph Barnby has incidentally referred to the Leeds chorus, which ...

... aquatics. Thk High Level, the Redheugh, and the Chain Bridges were clad in every part with humanity clustered thick as blackberries And all along the banks o:i either side for milei were dark with human forms. Nowhere in Tyneside annals can mire patient ...

... duke, to prevent even the little urchins obtain ing the wherewithal to catcli a few sprats in the docks. The bramble, or blackberry, or in botanical parlance Rubus frutieosvs, ia too well knowu to need any introduction. Thy fruit full well the schoolboy ...

... Another evidence of the mildness of tbe season. A correspondent, writing from Hastings, says he has on his table a spray of blackberries which was gathered last week in the immediate vicinity of Hastings. There are upwards of 30 berries, 13 of them being quite ...

... have had a deal of work to accom- plish, but have notwithstanding performed it to the satisfaction of all. To-morrow is Blackberry Friday. The school children of Northumberland claim it as a holiday, and the teachers do not very strongly resist the claim ...